Horror and Film Industry Updates

The WME literary media department, responsible for working with authors and shepherding screen adaptations of their literary works, is marking its tenth anniversary in the wake of a big showing at this year’s Emmys. “DTF St. Louis,” which featured WME client and series star/executive producer David

“I Play Rocky,” “Paper Tiger” and “Josephine” are among the 140 narrative features, documentaries and short films set to screen during the Coronado Island Film Festival’s 11th season. The festival will run from Nov. 4 through 8. Amazon MGM’s “I Play Rocky” will open the festival. Directed by Peter F

Hit video games “ARC Raiders” and “The Finals” are both getting adapted for TV and film in new projects set up with Chernin Entertainment and Nexon-owned video game developer Embark Studios. The North Road Company’s Chernin Entertainment film and TV division was chosen

In the credits for the “Paranormal Activity” stage play currently running on the West End before it heads off to Broadway next year, next to Blumhouse, which produced the original hit film franchise, sits the name of one of cinema’s most historic and iconic horror brands: Hammer. T

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Nick Simon has inked with IAG following the Fantastic Fest premiere of his supernatural horror flick What Happened to Doris?, which stars fellow agency client Heather Graham. Based on a true story, What Happened to Doris? centers on Doris Bither, a single mother who in 197